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TIL that when same-sex marriage was illegal in Canada, same-sex couples used religious marriage to get around the law

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OGy5e TIL earlier condoms were made from fish bladder or sheep gut.
n8Rb TIL There once was a village named Resia in Italy. They flooded the area and the only thing left visible is the village’s bell tower. It is know known as Lago di Resia.
7Lyx TIL of Robert Peace, a ‘black guy from the hood’ who ended up graduating from Yale with honors in molecular biophysics and biochemistry, moving back to his 'hood’ and teaching biology at his old highschool, engineering his own strain of Marijuana and getting killed over a drug deal
j6waM TIL that about half of Earth's oxygen comes from the ocean. It is mainly produced by marine plankton that include algae, bacteria and other organisms that can photosynthesize.
OGYxR TIL of baseball player Fred Merkle. In 1908 he made a base running mistake that ultimately cost his team the pennant. The play became known as “Merkle’s Boner”.